I’m not afraid to say I admire the bravery in artistry of Kendrick Lamar. I would absolutely agree that his language makes me cringe and I don’t find it very edifying at times. But his grasp on the human experience towards his audience is spot on. As I understand, being a guy from a rural town in Louisiana. I don’t fully grasp the insight of a kid from the streets of Compton. The mean streets for me are ones with dirts roads, but I digress. I admire his fearlessness in how he uses wordplay. If you listen to some of his music you hear the battle between good and evil, especially in his album, “To Pimp A Butterfly.” Which leads to my title from a lyric in his song, “Alright”. We all wear a level of hypocrisy on our sleeves. Most of us lead lives that don’t exactly match up with the way we would want to live. A growing and faithful Christian soon recognizes without help, we are hopeless without our Savior and his church. I am the biggest hypocrite, however we worship a bigger Messiah. When I focus my attention on his life and sacrifice on our behalf I forget about my lack of commitment or divided affections. He solves the problem of my hypocrisy.
The question in my mind begins to be. How might we lead a more confessional life? I firmly believe that each of us has a marred display of the image of God within us. Somewhere within, we all yearn to be on a righteous and right path but we settle for the sloppy seconds that the world brings our way. Our hypocrisy lies in the fact that we don’t constantly and consistently confess our sins one to another. We don’t trust one another. And this makes us dependent on our own ineptness to change. What if God knew that not just apart from him, but apart from the church we can do nothing? As an individual, I am the biggest hypocrite in 2016. But as I join with the church of God, we display the glory of the one that has conquered our hypocrisy and made us whole. I might admire Kendrick Lamar, but there is a far better example ahead that is full of grace and truth. Jesus would agree that “we gon’ be alright,” because even more so we are redeemed, set free and delivered from the power of the enemy.
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